Mister Pink

The win rate itself is impressive: 2 wins from 7 races works out at 29%, or roughly 1 in every 3.5 races. For context, most professional racehorses win somewhere around 1 in 10 over a career. Mister Pink is winning at nearly three times that rate. His best runs have come on normal ground, where he has won 2 of his 4 races — a 50% record that is genuinely extraordinary and suggests his trainer, the legendary Willie Mullins, will be watching the ground reports closely before committing him to a run.

Mullins is the most important detail on Mister Pink's profile. The Muine Bheag yard has sent out 237 winners already this season — a number that is almost absurd when you sit with it. That is roughly one winner every single day of the racing calendar. Horses trained there arrive with serious reputations, and the fact that Mullins has kept faith with this seven-year-old through a 14-month absence from racing speaks to something. Trainers do not bring a horse back from that kind of break without believing there is a race to be won.

And that is the central question hanging over Mister Pink right now. His last race was 434 days ago — over 14 months off the track. His most recent wins came at Ballinrobe in July 2023 and Punchestown in October 2024, and his recent form of 2-6-2-1-2-1 shows a horse that was finishing strongly before disappearing from view. Whatever kept him away, the record before that break was that of a horse in fine form. The 6 in that sequence is the only blemish across six runs.

When Mister Pink does return, expect him to attract attention. A horse with his win rate, trained by the most prolific yard in the sport, coming back off a long rest — that is a combination that makes people sit up and take notice.